Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-21
GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
DR.. TALNAGBS TABERNACLE DISCOURSE
LAST SUNDAY.
The Discussion Of New Truths-0psning up the
Treasure Chests Of the Bi6ls-Ths Wisdom Of
SolOmOn-The Heart and the LIvs-Ths
Good and the Evil.

service at the Tabernacle this morning by
giving ont the hymn beginning:
should coming days be cold and dark,
We need not cease our singing;
That perfect rest nought can molest,
"here golden harps are ringing"
He then explained passage to the Cos
pei of st. Matthew, concerning the inferior
kind Of salt that was cast out to make
walks of, to be trodden under foot of men
The subject of DR.. Talmage's discourse
was: THE Gospel of Health, and his text
from Proverbs vii, 90: It'll a dart strike
through his liver" He said:
There is fashion in sermonics. A COM
paratively small part of the Bible is called
on for texts. Most Of the passages of
Scripture, when announced at the opening
Of sermons, Immediately divide themselves
into old discussions that We have heard
from boyhOod, and the effect on us is So
porific. The auditor guesses at the
start just what the preacher will say.
There are very important chapters
and verses that have never been
preached from. Much of my lifetime am
devoting to unlocking these gold chests
and blasting open these quarries: We
talk about the heart, and preach about the
heart, and sing about the heart, but if you
refer to the physical organ that we call
the heart, it has not half so much TO do
with spiritual health or disease, moral ex-
altation or physical depression, as the
organ to the consideration of which Solo
mon calls us in the text, when he describes
sin progressing ''till dart strike through
his liver"
SolOmon's anatomical and physiological
discoveries were so very great that he was
nearly three thousand years ahead of the
scientists of his day. He, more than one
thousand years before Christ, seemed to
known about the circulation Of the blood,
which Harvey discovered sixteen hundred
and nineteen years after Christ, for when
Solomon in Ecclesiastes, describing the
human body, speaks of the pitcher at the
fountain, he evidently means the three
canals leading from the heart that receive
the blood like pitchers. When lie speaks
in Ecclesiastes Of the
SILVER CORD OF LIFE,
he evidently means that the spinal mar.
row, about which in our day doctors
Mayo, and Carpenter, and Dalton, and
Flint, and Brown-Sequard have expert
Inented. And Solomon recorded in the
Bible thousands of years before scientists
discovered it, that in his time the spinal
cord relaxed in old age, producing the
tremOrs of hand and head: ''Or the silver
cord be lo0sened -
preach TO you this morning the Gospel
of Health. In taking diagnosis of the dis
eases of the soul you must also take the
diagnosis of the disease of the body. As
if to recognize this, one whole book Of the
New Testament was written by physi-
clan. Luke was a doctor and ne dis
courses much of physical effects, aud he
tells Of the good Samaritan's medication of
the wounds by pouring in oil and wine. and
recognizes hunger as a hindrance to hear
ing the Gospel, so that the five thousand
were fed; and records the sparse diet of the
prOdigal away from home, and the extin-
guished eyeSight of the beggar by the way
side, and lets us know of the hemOrrhage
of the wounds of the dying Christ and the
miraculous post mOrtem resuscita-
tiOn. And any estimate of
the spiritual condition that does not
include also an estimate of the physical
condition is incomplete. When the door
keeper of Congress fell dead from excessive
Joy because Burgoyne had surrendered at
Saratoga, and Philip the Fifth of Spain
dropped dead at the news of his country's
defeat in battle, and Cardinal Wolsey ex-
pired as a result of Henry the Eighth
anathema, it was demonstrated that the
body and soul are SIamese twins, and
when you thrill the one with joy or sor-
row you thrill the other. We might as
we'll recognize the tremendous fact that
there are two mighty fortresses in the
human body, the heart and the liver; the
heart, the featress of all the graces, the
liver the fortress of all the furies You
may have the head filled with all the in
tellectualities, and the ear with all mus-
cal appreciation, and the mouth with all
eloqueuce, and the hand with all indus
tries, and the heart with all generosities,
and yet "a dart strike through the liver"
First let Christian people avoid the
mistake that they are all wrong with God
because they suffer from depression Of
spirits. Many a consecrated man has
found his
SPIRITUAL SKY BEFOGGED,
and his hope Of heaven blotted out, and
himself plunged chin deep in the Slough
of DespOnd, and has said: my heart is
not right with God, and think must
have made mistake, and instead of being
child of light | am a child of darkness.
No one can teel as gloomy as feel and be
Christian
A description of the march Of two armies
is given by two correspondents Of the
London Times, one of whom travelled with
the successful host the other With the de-
feated. The difference in views and state
ments Of the same place, scenes aud events,
! is remarkable. The former are said 10 be
marching through beautifuland luxuriant
country during the day, and at night en-
camping where they are supplied with an
abundance of the best provisions, and all
Of war about the proceeding except
its stimulus and excitement. On
the side of the poor Austrians is just the
reverse. In his letter Of the same date,
/ describing the same places aud q march
over the same road, the writer can scarcely
! find words to set forth the suffering, i'm
| patience and disgust existing around him.
What was pleasant to the former was in.
| tOlerable to the latter. What made all
this difference? asked the journalist. One
condition only: The French are victor.
ious, the Austrians have been defeated.
The contrast may convey a distinctive
idea Of the extent TO which moral impres-
siOns affect the efficiency Of the soldier.
So, my dear brother, the road you are
travelling is the same you have been traT-
elling long while, but the difference in
your physical conditions makes it look
different and therefore the two reports
you have given of yourself are as widely
different as the reports in the London
7IMes from the two correspondents. Ed
ward Payson, sometimes so
FAR Up on THE MOUNT
that il seemed as if the centripstal force Of
earth could no longer hold him, some
times through physical disorder was 30
far down that it seemed as il the Dether
world would clutch him GloriGIs WI
liam CoEper was as good rs good could be,
and will be loved in the Christian Church
as long IS it sings his hymn, beginning:
''There is a fountain filed with blood"
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